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November 2015

November 22, 2015
    This is mere grandstanding silliness:     From the Latter-day Saint point...
November 22, 2015
    The outpouring of grief in Paris has been moving.  Among the memorials has...
November 22, 2015
    We're past Halloween, of course, but this piece ("The Pumpkin") by the American Quaker...
November 22, 2015
    Here's the text of a column that I published in the Deseret News on Thanksgiving...
November 22, 2015
    An eminent Austrian-American sociologist of religion responds to the question:    ...
November 21, 2015
    Joel J. Miller is mounting an interesting theological challenge to Islam.  I've already...
November 21, 2015
    For some reason, I immediately thought of him when I first heard the...
November 21, 2015
    Most of the universe is dark matter, which we know only indirectly, by...
November 21, 2015
    If, as I do, you spend a lot of time reading comments from...
November 21, 2015
    Accosted by sister missionaries at Temple Square, he was inclined at first to...
November 21, 2015
    Cassandra Hedelius, Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, Daniel Peterson, and Stephen Smoot discuss 1 Nephi...
November 21, 2015
    Ernest Hemingway loved Spain.   But he had many loves, both human and...
November 20, 2015
    Christmas is drawing near.  We give gifts at Christmas.  So is Thanksgiving, when...
November 20, 2015
    Are the Trump folks ready for prime time?  Have they ever heard of...
November 20, 2015
    There has been a lot of talk, lately, about how being tainted by...
November 20, 2015
    Is it Friday?   It is.   So here's a hint:   There's...
November 20, 2015
    It was fun yesterday, traveling from Istanbul to Málaga, to fly over Tunisia...
November 20, 2015
    The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to...
November 20, 2015
    For the 148th scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation, Bruce Webster, Martin...
November 19, 2015
    There are people out there working very hard to save us Mormons from ourselves...
November 19, 2015
    I object when people call Islam evil because of ISIS, or blame Muslims...
November 19, 2015
    This week's assault on reason and common sense has now appeared in the...
November 18, 2015
    I intended to post this one quite some time ago.  My apologies.  ...
November 18, 2015
    History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and...
November 18, 2015
    My friend and BYU colleague Ralph Hancock brought this item to my notice...
November 18, 2015
    Christmas shopping and Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations, yes.   But we're also drawing...
November 18, 2015
    I think this article has a point, though I don't think that the...
November 18, 2015
    Incidentally, please note the Christian gesture of prayer in the image (from a...
November 18, 2015
    I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I...
November 17, 2015
    One of my favorite writers, Victor Davis Hanson, offers a rather sharp critique...
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